reineraggie09 said:
I still don't get the building move by Academy. Store isn't that much bigger. I also don't understand all of the empty commercial space like the old Academy building. I thought I read on here the landlords are not interested in selling the property only leasing. How can you afford to let an asset sit that long empty?
The current Academy is about 73k square feet. The old Academy up the highway is about 54k square feet. The original store was about 30k square feet. So probably not as a dramatic increase from its Redmond Terrace store, but a noticeable one nonetheless (plus a lot easier to access). While it has been empty for almost eight years, there's a more retail space in town that has been mothballed for longer. Walmart Neighborhood Market in Bryan has been closed for nine years now, longer than it was sitting as a vacant Albertsons. (In fact all three of College Station's Albertsons stores sat at least eight years after closing; each).
It looks like Holleman Drive (near H-E-B) will get a pedestrian crossing with HAWK beacons.